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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=CotCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''A voyage to the East Indies with observations on various parts there''] by John Henry Grose 1757 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''A voyage to the East Indies: containing authentic accounts of... the viceroyalties of the Decan and Bengal, with their several subordinate dependances ... With general reflections on the trade of India, Volume 1''] by John Henry Grose, New Edition 1772 Google Books (Also [http://books.google.com/books?id=pLA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP11 Volume 2]). Archive.org version may have extra illustrations [https://archive.org/details/voyagetoeastindi01gros Volume 1] ([https://archive.org/details/voyagetoeastindi02grosiala Volume 2])
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jCBhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Travels, in various parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards''] by John MacDonald, 1790. Google Books. Pages 154-278 cover the time the author (born 1741) spent In India, mostly in Bombay, as a servant c late 1760s/early 1770s. Republished in 1927 under the title ''Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald : Travels (1745-1779)''. [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004857217.0001.000 A transcription] ECCO-TPC umich.edu.
*[http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN66359457X&PHYSID=PHYS_0103 "A Description of some of the Artificial Caverns in the Neighbourhood of Bombay"] digital page 103 (actual page 83) ''A Concise Account Of The Climate, Produce, Trade, Government, Manners, and Customs, Of The Kingdom Of Pegu'' by W. Hunter A.M. Surgeon. Calcutta printed, reprinted London 1789 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
*''Selections from the Letters, Despatches, and Other State Papers preserved in the Bombay Secretariat: Home Series'' edited by Sir George Forrest 1887 Archive.org
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